The role of bots in the newsroom can only grow. Bots can scrape data, read, data, and output narrative. Over time, these bots will only become more sophisticated and more capable of producing real, consumable content.
This doesn't have to be a source of anxiety for journalists. We shouldn't engage in hand-wringing over the soul of journalism. Journalists should be creating our own bots and making them work for us.
BotMaker is trying to make bots fun. With zero development experience, journalists can create a twitter bot capable of digesting data sets and tweeting the results in natural language. You can use BotMaker to inform your audience about breaking news, environmental data, crime or whatever data sets you happen to be working with. Most importantly, it allows for experimentation.
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